At The Trailer Park: Watchmen, Terminator Salvation, The Spirit

I’ve never read the Watchmen comic books, but after seeing this trailer, I’ll have to find them and read them. This looks really cool:

Oddly enough, the teaser trailer for Terminator: Salvation doesn’t really do a whole lot for me. I like Christian Bale as an actor, so maybe he can bring something to this film. I guess I’m just not as ‘in’ to Terminator as others?

And lastly, The Spirit:

I dunno, I’m leaning toward a ‘meh’. Possibly because this aesthetic was already done in Sin City, which this trailer reminds me heavily of. Possibly because I’m not a Spirit fan. Can a 1940’s comic hero survive the Frank Miller treatment? We’ll see.

I’m not as tense about the Watchmen movie as some Moore fans are. Like V for Vendetta, I’ll take and enjoy what the movies gives me, and not worry about whether it gives me the comic book. To give me the comic book perfectly, the movie would have to…be…a comic book.

“The Spirit,” meanwhile, just looks stranger and stranger. Frank Miller’s taken Eisner’s comic and made it into Sin City, by all appearances. I’m not really keen on that.

You need to pick up the graphic novel. THE WATCHMEN is a classic work, simply fantastic! I hope the movie will be a hit, but at the BATMAN midnight showing last night, there was no reaction when the trailer was shown.

“Watchmen” blew me away when I read it a couple years ago. I have my doubts as to whether it can be successfully translated to the present day – but the trailer gives me some hope. Good visuals, right attitude… of course, we’ll wait and see if the studio ruins the whole thing with last minute edits (“I Am Legend,” anyone?)

All I know is that Alan Moore is pretty eccentric and his work has yet to really impress me like it seems to impress the rest of the world. I’ll have to check out Watchmen before it comes out but coming from the guy who said 300 was fascist and racist…well I’m not holding my breath.